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Fiona Kelly - Statement

After three years of evening classes at Goldsmiths’ College, London I studied part-time there in the Ceramics Department 1981-3, concentrating on throwing with Lisa Hammond, the course culminating in an exhibition at the Seven Dials Gallery.

Following moving to Bournemouth, the births of four daughters and setting up in business I was able to return to more potting and now divide my time between that, family and book keeping.

My current work is mainly functional stoneware pottery.  I use a variety of slips and glazes to give more colour to my work which is fired to 1280 C in an electric kiln.  Recently I have started to use more relief decoration, often in conjunction with paper resist designs which brings another level of interest to the work, and I have introduced a more sculptural element to my work through more modelled handles and lids.

I sell widely in Dorset – at outside events and shows as well as with Southern Ceramic Group, Dorset Pottery Group and Christchurch and District Arts, and my work is always available in the Creative Gallery and the Acanthus Gallery, both in Wareham, the Russell Cotes Museum in Bournemouth, Coastal Creatives in Southborne, Fisherton Mill in Salisbury and the Strawberry Fish Gallery in Hartley Wintney.